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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 5, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE.
POLITICAL
PROPAGANDA
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Although no details Have been given, the announcement yesterday that a political propagan- da department is being 'organised in Britain is an
interesting supplement to| the Churchill Roosevelt Atlantic Charter. In that charter, Britain and the United States officially underwrote the democra- tic war aims, but the war has yet to be won. Το that end, it is essential that the picture of the Nazi "new order" in oper- ation should be made better known not only throughout Europe, but to the free democracies] also, partly as an object- lesson of what is in store if Hitler is not smashed, partly as the groundwork of the crusade of libera- tion. The main purpose of the political propagan- da department is to en- courage the subjugated peoples and to fortify them to expect liberation before the influences now at work disarm them economically and morally as well as physically.
Without allies inside
Europe, without the moral
support, the will-to-wait,
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of millions in captivity, If the dogma of race stiperiority It was amongst this set of peo-ment would proclaim a poll tax
suffering hunger, loss and
of Nazi Germany were confined ple of the interior that German of six shillings per head. As by solely to of the world, one might under- maladministration
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economic exploitatioll
of
of the
was most far the greater number grief in a measure beyond
not possibly find our power to imagine, the stand it to mean nothing more marked; because, whereas on the people could
morbid expression coast some sort of civil adminis- this sum, the alternative was so democratic war cannot be than
here in many days labour without pay. homan greed. But when the fol-tration was organised, won. It is to these mil-lowers of Hitler clamour for "a the interior jurisdiction was al-
If they did not work they were that
beaten. lions, then,
the place in the sun" meaning colon-most entirely in the hands of the
I have it on the testi- these 12- iev, and particularly
military officers. The general ut- Anglo-American joint de-
rns in Africa which were restitude of the governors there was mony of Dr. Schaedler who stat- ed in the Reichstag on November
the 1906; ".
story of claration was first of all cued from. their clutches in 1916, as Hassert laid down:
the subject takes a different col- the negroes to road making and 28,
A whole directed. It carried a pro- | our.
porterage work at the stations our colonies contains
series of events of a not too and other tasks of Kultur." mise of restored life and
pleasant kind: embezzlements, It demands the right of ruler-}
the coloured races. It is not
"to keep
One such region is the Cameroons But when the newly organised which adjoins the flourishing area government department began ex- of Nigeria.
an
sive."
Official Demi-Gods
independence to inspire ship over the less-civilised peo- There was never a single peace. falsifying of accounts, assaults on them to hold out. Al- ples, and of applying the lash to ful year in Cameroon from the for. native women, horrible ill treat- Somation of its first German colonialment-things that do not contri- to a laurel wreath. The though this promise con- much a matter of exploiting the Governorship in July
1885, for hute
must be no dumping
rate tained no guarantee that mineral resources there, but sheer the tribes continually resisted the colonies
ground for second
people. love of inflicting on others an bullying Germans.
Men with a past, or who are on the frontiers will be re-
expression of German mastery. established as they were,
shelf and officials and officers who it revived the rather de-
are mentally and morally offen-
flated word "self-deter-
This tract of country with mination," probably a re-
area of about 292,000 square miles ΟΙ more flection of Mr. Roosevelt's and with a population
a half millions long-cherished idea that than two and
stretches inland from the north- internationally controlled eastern corner of the Gulf of It has a plebiscites will solve the Guinea in West Africa. with infinitely difficult pro- which we are here concerned. blems of disputed terri-
Black Record Of tories.
German Rule
goodly Muslim population
By Shiekh A. Abdullah
minded me only the other day. No and the interior,
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The actual administration of the country and its justice was. In chaos. Every official was law uh- to himself. One such German officer created his native wife in- to a kind of magistrate when he himself fell ill. She promptly had two negroes arrested on a pansion into the interior, trouble false charge of brigandage, and started on a large scale. The when Captain Kamptz, the head- THESE FACTS MAKE tribes, although armed only with man of the administration of the But the answer lies not
primitive weapons, doggedly har-region visited the stations, she, in self-determination, as Should it ever have the misfor-assed the German military ex-handed over her prisoners to him. tune of passing back into German pedition. There was real reason They were bound to the muzzle we have learned in Croa-hand, the whole world of Islam, for this, for it threatened the live-of a gun and blown to pieces, tia and Slovakia and will mourn, as a Muslim co-re-lihood of those engaged in the
Flogging, of course, was the usual pastime of the German Transylvania, but in the ligionist of mine from Africa re-transit-trade between the coast
Station Officers in Cameroon The experience the peoples of one there has forgotten the atro-
cities of German rule. The The Duala and Akwa chiefs on facts were so well known that the Europe are now enduring memory is so tragic that when the shores of the Cameroon river neighbouring colonies used to call They are being driven mothers wish to frighten their were further allenated by the it the land of twenty-five," that
children they still say, "Look, appropriation of their villages is, of twenty-five lashes. together by a common
without compensation when the there's a German!".
Of this Deputy Bebel said in unified under a
German port of Duala was built.
the Reichstag: "We had an op- agony,'
portunity of judging-some yenis Forced Labour common yoke. Better In Cameroon, there are two sections of territory-northern and
ago in this House, when a party than perplexed states-southern, the latter being the
Then the labour trouble arose. friend of mine laid a rhinoceros
German whip on the table of the House. men, they know that the coastal region. It is in the north-
crni area, especially in the ancient This time between the old structure cannot be kingdoms of Adamawa and Bornu, planters and the German Gover-Four "instruments of punishment" rebuilt. They know that that Muslims are to be found in nors. The former wanted men were used there for this purpoke
a predominant position.
for work on the plantations and by the German administrators for where the boundaries
the Administration needed men for even the most trivial offences; road building and for pushing the one was rhinocerous whip, an- stand matters far less
rallway line into the interior. other a rope's end, a third a bird called "the little-stick", and the than that, under any British organ of propa-ava government, the indivi- ganda to ensure that The Negro, of course, had no fourth salted strap. Many mon choice about Blending his labour of that region can still show the dual is guaranteed funda- hope, that the dawn of to either. He was whipped and marks of fogging upon their mental human rights. It that new day will come, is beaten and made to work as backs, and they would rathon dle forced-labourer. At times when fighting than submit to the Ger labour was scurce, the governman rulo again. is the task of the new restored to Europe.
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